Timelinely lets you add highlights to interesting points in a video with pictures, links, maps, other videos, comments, questions and (polls/quizzes coming soon). Just paste a YouTube URL, and you're ready to create.

Below are links and downloads to the powerpoint, recording, and handouts from the March 7th webinar on Technology in Language Acquisition Research and Pedagogy (sponsored by the TESOL CALL and Applied Linguistics Interest Sections) featuring two talks by myself and Volker Hegelheimer of Iowa State University: Webinar Recording: To access the recording at the link,…

One of the major criticisms of this method though is that a dull unengaging content doesn't suddenly become engaging because it's on a video on the web, so how do we get students to engage with the content and make sure they watch it in a challenging and interactive way.

Vialogues is a useful tool for attempting to do this (though dull content will always be dull) because it enables you to create interaction around the video that actually gets students to think about and engage with the content.

I would like to start this post by saying that when I hear some people say that mobile phones are dangerous devices for humankind, I cannot help smiling while recalling that I had to hear something similar about the dangers of TV not so many years ago. In fact, TV was called “the idiot box” and you had to be very careful because spending some hours watching it could kill your creativity forever. Fortunately, it seems that did not happen to many of us who learnt how to benefit from watching TV.

iFake Text Message is a great tool for creating authentic looking materials to engage students and shift materials design into a genre that’s both relevant and familiar. The tool enables you to create a screen image of a text conversation.

This article was written by Mike Groves, Diana Hopkins and Tom Reid Around 70 million people – including Bill Gates – have signed up for the language learning app Duolingo. The app has received plenty of media attention, and its creators claim that it can help anyone with a smart phone learn a new language. The app is free, and promises all kinds of cutting edge features, such as adaptive algorithms to suit users’ learning speed, as well as gamification to boost motivation. They also claim that this app can provide members of poorer communities with access to language learning that would otherwise …

You shall know a word by the company it keeps. J.R. Firth, A Synopsis of Linguistic Theory There can be no ‘correctness’ apart from usage. C.C. Fries, An American English Grammar Usage cannot be invented, it can only be recorded. (Sinclair, 1987a: xv). One of the main uses of a corpus is to identify what CONTINUE READIN

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